56 Major Parer’s Extracis from the Mualiydt-i-Déra Shekohi. 
The finger’s breadth is estimated by both as equal to six moderate-sized 
barleycorns, placed side by side, with the convex of one to the concavity of 
the other ; and a barleycorn is moreover stated as equal to six hairs from 
the mane of a Tarky horse.* 
By others, again, distances are estimated by the barid,t which is equal 
to three farsangs, each of threet mils, each mil consisting of two thousand 
baia,\| each baia of four gaz, and each gaz of twenty-four asba ; § each asha 
again of six barleycorns,§ and each barleycorn as equal to six hairs of a 
camel’s tail. 
Referring again to the sages of Hind, we are further instructed that eight 
barleycorns, stripped of the shell and placed side by side on the ground, are 
equal to a finger’s breadth ; twenty-four such fingers’ breadth making a 
hand, or palm; ** that four palms make what they call a dand, and some- 
times dehang ; ++ a thousand dands one korih, by them however called a 
kos ;¢t and four korih one jojan.||\| Last of all, we have it stated, that 
one thousand paces of a woman, with a child in her arms and a jar of . 
water on her head, are considered to be equal to one korih or kos.§§ 
* It is obvious to remark, that the first statement, which gives eight thousand farsangs to 
the circumference of the globe, reckoning three fingers’ breadth at eight-tenths of an inch, thirty- 
two fingers’ breadth to the gaz, and four thousand gaz to the korih or kos, would furnish a total 
of twenty-nine thousand and ninety English miles, or an excess of four thousand two hundred 
and fifty beyond the reality. But the second statement, of six thousand eight hundred farsangs 
of three kos, gives a total of twenty-four thousand seven hundred and twenty-six miles and four fur- 
longs, being not more than one hundred and fourteen miles below the reality—that is, estimating 
the circumference of the globe at three hundred and sixty degrees of sixty-nine miles to a 
degree. 
On experiment it will be found that six barleycorns are not more than equal to eight- 
tenths of an inch, and a gaz will then be nineteen inches and two-tenths, about the common 
cubit. We shall therefore be very near the truth in estimating the forth or kos of Akbar at one 
mile one furlong one hundred and fifty yards and one foot, and the ,farsang of three korith at 
three miles, five furlongs, and twenty yards. 
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§§ According to this statement the kos would be equal to one mile four furlongs twenty- 
six yards and two feet; and a jojan to six miles one hundred and six yards and two feet— 
estimating the finger’s breadth at eight barleycorns. 
